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WLC 254C
Experiments
ALPHA
Science Goal: Search for axion dark matter using quantum and microwave technologies.
Group Involvement: Yale is responsible for systems engineering, cryogenics, and magnetics. Yale faculty involvement in ALPHA includes Heeger, Keith Baker, Sean Barrett, Charles Brown, Steve Lamoreaux, Konrad Lehnert, and Reina Maruyama. Maruyama is deputy spokesperson of ALPHA.
CUORE & CUPID
Science goal: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay, which could answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.
Group involvement: Yale is responsible for detector calibration, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds, double beta decay analysis, & the search for solar axions. Heeger and Reina Maruyama are CO-PIs of CUORE & CUPID.
